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2011-09-20 Arabia

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Posted by ryuge 2011-09-20 06:23|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Nope. Egypt is.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-09-20 07:31|| 2011-09-20 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Yemen could become a failed state, threatening Saudi Arabia's soft underbelly and thus western oil and gas supplies.

The journo needs to buy a map. Somalia on one side of the Red Sea and it's approaches and Yemen on the other side will effectively close the Suez Canal.

Posted by phil_b 2011-09-20 09:05|| 2011-09-20 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Egypt is.

You won't see a collapse of the central government as in Somalia.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-20 09:45|| 2011-09-20 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes I will. Maybe Koreans can starve without government breaking down---Arabs can't. (Any Arab government is a house of cards anyway).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-20 13:35|| 2011-09-20 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 There won't be a collapse, because the present 'revolution' really wasn't a fall of the government per se, merely who was in charge. The Eyptian military hasn't decamped.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-20 13:52|| 2011-09-20 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Earth to Pappy, they're 20 billion $ a year short for buying food.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-20 14:12|| 2011-09-20 14:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Spengler?

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-20 15:33|| 2011-09-20 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 What does Venkman think?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-20 17:07|| 2011-09-20 17:07|| Front Page Top

#9 grom, they may be $20 B short of buying food for the country, but as in North Korea, the army will be the last to go hungry.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-09-20 18:45|| 2011-09-20 18:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Egypt imports half its food.

Any supply disruption and 100 million people start to go hungry.

Posted by phil_b 2011-09-20 22:52|| 2011-09-20 22:52|| Front Page Top

#11 In the future, we are all going to be Somalia for 15 minutes. The only question is whether we take turns or do it all at once.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-20 23:02|| 2011-09-20 23:02|| Front Page Top

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